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David Hajdu begins Love for Sale his personal history of pop music in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the beginning of popular music - many songs were already popular - as it was the beginning of the popular music industry. And if he's going to understand what his 45s meant to him this is the place to start: the rise of Tin Pan Alley of minstrelsy of million-copy sellers and one-hit wonders and cultural arbiters decrying the baseness simplicity and signs of the end of times in popular music. Love for Sale does ultimately spin through more familiar territory - the Cotton Club the rise of radio the battle of disco versus punk for the soul of New York as Hajdu made his chops as a critic the rise of hip-hop and the current atomisation of the music landscape - but it is always with a unique insightful and eloquently presented point of view as one would expect from one of our most celebrated music critics.

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David Hajdu begins Love for Sale his personal history of pop music in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the beginning of popular music - many songs were already popular - as it was the beginning of the popular music industry. And if he's going to understand what his 45s meant to him this is the place to start: the rise of Tin Pan Alley of minstrelsy of million-copy sellers and one-hit wonders and cultural arbiters decrying the baseness simplicity and signs of the end of times in popular music. Love for Sale does ultimately spin through more familiar territory - the Cotton Club the rise of radio the battle of disco versus punk for the soul of New York as Hajdu made his chops as a critic the rise of hip-hop and the current atomisation of the music landscape - but it is always with a unique insightful and eloquently presented point of view as one would expect from one of our most celebrated music critics.

Returns policy

We want you to be entirely happy with your order from start to finish but, if for any reason you change your mind about your order or if your order arrives faulty, please click here to view our full Delivery and Returns policy including information regarding postcode restrictions.

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